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  • Rent control policy questioned
    Rent controls proposed by Labour party leadership hopeful Grant Robertson have been panned by Act leader John Banks. He plans to introduce a private member's bill to get "rent stabilisation" across the city.
    13-09-2013 more >>
  • Capital gains tax won't work: ACT
    A capital gains tax won’t improve housing affordability, according to ACT. The party's leader, John Banks, spoke out in the wake of Labour’s party conference in the weekend, where it outlined plans to make housing affordable with a 10-year building programme.
    20-11-2012 more >>
  • Banks agrees prices are too high
    ACT Leader John Banks supports Finance Minister Bill English’s claim that house prices are “ridiculously high” and that affordability issues are “turning off” young New Zealanders.
    30-07-2012 more >>
  • Politicians wade into supplement debate
    Debate over the Government’s accommodation supplement is heating up. Labour’s housing spokeswoman Annette King says the supplement artificially props up rents and has suggested the money - which she terms a $1.2 billion subsidy for landlords – could be better spent building more houses.
    18-07-2012 more >>

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